Allison Van Dam

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<b>(CNN) —</b> Elias Rosenfeld, who emigrated from Venezuela to the United States as a boy in 2004, has faced a precarious future for most of his young life.<p>A few years after their family arrived in Florida, his mother died of cancer. Elias and his sister moved in with their undocumented father.<p>But the …

The country doesn't have a wave of undocumented workers. That ended a decade ago.<p>With the rise of Donald Trump, anti-immigrant sentiment has reached levels not seen in decades in the U.S. Anger against illegal immigration and fear of refugees, previously confined to the fringes of the Republican …

Five years ago, before Latino people worried much about Donald Trump, Oscar Saldivar stood in my living room in Los Angeles and told me a story. He began to weep.<p>Saldivar is a building contractor and a Mexican immigrant. I had hired his construction company to add a room to my home. We’re both …